Thanks for your PR @kam1sh 🍡 💫

I think this is a good idea and is a great feature to have 💪 would you mind fixing the checks that cause this build to fail?

Sure! I just was too lazy to implement this for Python 2.7 =)

I think it's ready.

Thanks @kam1sh! Sorry but one more thing, can you squash the commits into one?

I thought it can be done on PR merge...

Absolutely, but maybe you yourself would want to create a descriptive commit message :)

You will need to update the config command and the Config class if you want this new setting to be set via the config command.

Forgot to check it in the Poetry CLI itself, thank you.

Now it shows in poetry config:

> poetry config --list
...
virtualenvs.include-system-packages = false
...

What's next? Maybe I should mock environment creation in tests? Or write tests for command poetry env use?

Hello? I have to write more tests/code or feature is ready to merge?

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Well, I see that no one wants this PR. Fine =(

@stephsamson @kam1sh can you please consider reviving this PR? What is the additional work required to merge? Some of us are willing to help, see #1393.

Hello, this is very useful for packages that that are distributed using apt on ARM. I would really appreciate this getting merged.

@kam1sh Your PR looks great and It would be a shame for the work to go to waste. Could you please reopen it so we can pester people to merge it in.

I too would really appreciate if this gets merged.
Also, would it be possible to use site-packages as part of CLI invocation (e.g., poetry venv or poetry install?

I agree this functionality would be useful in Poetry, but for the meantime here are some workarounds (cross-posting across related issues):

Use case 1) I just want to save space use by my virtualenvs:

1. Install https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/
2. cd ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/ && rdfind -makehardlinks true .

Use case 2) I need to use a globally installed package from my poetry venv.

1. Open ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/myvenv/pyvenv.cfg
2. Set include-system-site-packages = true

This would be helpful in cases where some developer uses their own debugging modules via PYTHONBREAKPOINT or similar. Without system-site-packages and this environment variable set to non-existent module (such as IPython debugger), breakpoint() will just fail and not open a debugging session

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